The Bombardment: of Paris by Long-Range Guns

Abstract

IN the language of sport, the German gunner has “wiped the eye” of our: artillery science and defied all the timid preconceived notions of our old-fashioned traditions. The Jubilee long-range artillery experiments of thirty years ago were considered the ne plus ultra of our authorities j and we were stopped at that, as they were declared of no military value. To-day We have the arrears to make up of those years of delay. But the German watched our experiments with great interest, resumed them where we had. left off, and carried the idea forward until it has culminated to-day in his latest achievement in artillery of a gun to fire 75 miles and bombard Paris from the frontier.